A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one of the necessities of a full life.
Henry Ward BeecherEvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward BeecherTags: faith
No matter how good the walls and the materials are; if the foundations are not strong, the building will not stand. By and by, in some upper room, a crack will appear; and men will say: "There is the crack; but the cause is the foundation." So if, in youth, you lay the foundation of your character wrongly, the penalty will be sure to follow. The crack may be far down in old age, but somewhere it will certainly appear.
Henry Ward Beecherthe difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't
Henry Ward BeecherTags: perseverance
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...
Henry Ward BeecherIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward BeecherTo the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
Henry Ward BeecherEvery writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward BeecherWell married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.
Henry Ward BeecherNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward BeecherTags: selfishness cheated
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